The only thing that makes a 27 different European web hosting industrues to look like a single market is the .EU top-level domain name. The .EU has been introduced in on 7th of December, 2005 and become the official web address of the European union. It is available for registration for organizations and citizens in EU member states.
Find more information about EU domain in .EU Wikipedia page and EURid’s website (the organization that administers the .EU names). We will point your attention to some domain registrars that offer .EU domain registration.
Where to register .EU?
EuroDNS is one of the companies we know for years. It’s .Eu pricing is very expensive – €18/year – compared to the one of most other registrars. However EuroDNS is a domain registrar only and does not provide web hosting services like many other Eurid accredited registrars.
Another domain registrar – Realtimeregister – offers .EU for €25/year to consumers. However the company’s price on .EU drops to €6.06 for Resellers who deposit at least €500 on their account.
123reg.co.uk, a quite popular UK domain registrar offer .EU domains to end user for €9.96 (£8.99), price that is significantly lower than those above.
The Germany website Freedomain.de owned by the ICANN’s accredited registrar InternetX sells .EU at €14.28/year.
NameCheap a company that entered the domain registration business as Enom reseller now offers .Eu registration for as low as $11.44/year (around €7.72).
GoDaddy, probaby the worlds most popular domain registrar offers 1 year .EU domain at $14.99/year (around €10.12).
Those are only a few of many domain registrars that anyone can use to get .EU domain. Make sure you have checked the domain registrars that are popular in France (Gandi.net, Nom-domaine.fr), Spain (Register.es and many others), Italy (Domainit.com, Tuonome.it) and all other European union countries. Check companies like Papaki in Greece, FColor.bg in Bulgaria and many others. To find low cost .EU domain registration make sure that you are using the local search engines or local Google web address.
Web Hosting in Europe
The EU web hosts are even more than domain registrars. If you need quality web hosting in Europe that offers technical support in English you have to go with UK, Irish, Dutch, German or any other provider from a country based in Northern Europe. For some reason the European citizens that reside in Northern part of the continent speak English much better than others. So we assume that it is easy for businesses in the northern Eu countries to provide english language support.
We would like to target your attention to the Netherlands based EU web hosting provider – HostColorEurope.com (a best web hosting brand of HostColor.com), HostEurope.de in Germany, 34sp.com in UK, etc.
Check also the European web hosting providers listed in WebHosting.info.